For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All

The Bad Astronomer writes "AT WWDC, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone 4's display has about the same resolution as the human eye — held at one foot away, the iPhone 4's pixels are too small to see. After reading an earlier Slashdot post about an expert disputing Jobs' claim, I decided to run the numbers myself. I found that Jobs is correct for people with normal vision, and the expert was using numbers for theoretically perfect vision. So to most people, the iPhone 4 display will look unpixellated."

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Re:Wrong or right

[Pojut]

In what way is "retina" a special word? Are you some kind of retard?

Possibly. I've been called worse.

And I can just imagine the marketing division that would go up to the CEO of any company and say "You know what you should say in the big keynote speech? The resolution or dots per inch on this cellphone is so dense that one will not be able to distinguish one pixel from its neighbouring pixels. They'd all get sacked, and rightly so.

I think this speaks poorly of the general public, not the marketing department.

People wouldn't do shit like this if it didn't work. The fact that it works is disparaging enough, let alone the fact that people take advantage of it.